SINCLAIR, FRANCIS (1834-1915), the son of Captain Francis Sinclair (q.v.), was born in Scotland and came to New Zealand with his parents (1840). He went to Hawaii with his mother (1863). Later he owned a sheep station in the North Island of New Zealand, and resided in Auckland. Returning to California before 1906, he afterwards resided in England. Sinclair married first Isabella, sister of William McHutcheson. She wrote a valuable book on the indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian islands (illustrated by her own paintings), and was engaged on a further volume when she died. He afterwards married her sister, Wilhelmina McHutcheson Sheriffs.

Sinclair himself wrote Ballads and Poems from the Pacific (pseud. "Philip Garth") (1885); Where the Sun Sets (1905); Under North Star and Southern Cross (1907); From the Four Winds (1909); and Under Western Skies (1911). He died in 1915.

Family information Aylmer F. Robinson; Sinclair, op. cit.

Reference: Volume 2, page 156

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